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There are a lot of sounds here in Xining. Car horns, cell phones, musical tunes that emanate from garbage trucks or signify the start of classes at schools, firecrackers, and voices–to name just a sampling. Today as I walked home from school I heard a "new" version of the song that goes, "Knock, knock, knockin’…
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What is it about these heist movies that really perks my interest? We watched the 2003 version of The Italian Job with some friends recently. I really liked it (despite the cheesiness that will always float around Marky Mark’s aura.) It made me curious as to why these types of thievery movies are so satisfying. …
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A blog is almost too insignificant a place to honor your mom…but it’s all I’ve got. On Mother’s Day I just wanted to say a few words to show how much I appreciate my mom. She birthed me, she cared for me, she encouraged me, she fed me, she clothed me, she prayed with me,…
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Do you ever think about how certain events lead to other events which lead to still other events and how if you hadn’t set the first event in motion the other events would not have happened. I think about this all the time. I guess I posted a few days ago about decisions and this…
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Mandarin Chinese is a very interesting language, I think. The more I know about it the more intriguing it becomes. (Although I must admit that this past week was probably the lowest I’ve had on the motivation scale…) Here is an interesting example of one of the reasons I think the language is interesting: he…
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Wanted to congratulate our good friends, Greg and Amy Collard on the birth of their daughter Emma Claire! She was born May 10th and weighed in at 7 lbs 12 ounces. Congrats, you guys! We’re so happy for you… (It’s so re-assuring that Emma didn’t come out with Greg’s goatee…)
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Woke up this morning to a heavy rain. It’s such a strange phenomenon here it often comes as a surprise. Small muddy streams quickly form on the streets and the sidewalks seem to groan and crackle like dry throats finally getting a drink. When the sun retreats behind the clouds, the warmth seems to hide…
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As you can see here, the girls really enjoyed getting some goodies from back home today. (Thanks, Mom & Dad. Our coffee supply ran out this week…shoooo, that was a close one!)
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Hi, everyone. Here’s a few pictures from the girls’ trip to Jianca. Christa mostly took pictures of the mountains on the way to the city. There are only a few photos of the actual town…so I’ll have to go there this summer and take some other shots of the scenery. I’m told there are real…
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"You tell me I am not an original person. Observe, dear prince, that nothing offends a man of our day and our race more than to tell him that he is not an original person, that he is weak-willed, has no particular talents and is an ordinary person. You haven’t even given me credit for…
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